Transport Ce left Klatovy for the Theresienstadt Ghetto on November 30, 1942. It consisted of 619 Jews, residents from Klatovy, Kdyne, Svihov, Kolovec and Domazalice. On November 29, the deportees were brought to a local school building that served as an assembly site.
Prior to the train’s departure, several staff members of the Prague Jewish community Transports Department arrived in Klatovy, to carry out administrative measures according to the orders they received from the Central Office for Jewish Immigration. They prepared a list of deportees, registered Jewish property and issued notices regarding the date of deportation.
Twenty men were selected and, under the supervision of Czech policemen, collected the deportees’ luggage and brought them to a freight car. The following day the deportees were brought to the train station. They were accompanied by three SS men, 10 Czech policemen and a group of employees of the Jewish community in Prague led by Robert Mandler....